Government Waste

There is new talk about upgrading the Amtrak route from Milwaukee to Chicago with new track and infrastructure and more trains…but this could have been accomplished years ago if not of the interference of one Governor Scott Walker. sigh.

In their first approval of a nominee of President Obama since retaking the majority in the Senate, the Senate Banking Committee led by Alabama Republican Richard Shelby confirmed Adam Szubin to a post in the Treasury Department. I am not…

By now all of you have read at least one article about the perceived risk of having the county executive sell Milwaukee County park land without input from the county board or the general public. The recent changes in state…

Well here’s a good one…Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke is accusing Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele of infringing on the good sheriff’s 1st Amendment rights of free speech by trying to cut millions of dollars out of the sheriff departments…

Wednesday was the first meeting of our occasional governor’s new Wisconsin Commission on the Future of the Family, created “for the purpose of identifying issues and barriers relating to the overall wellbeing of families in the State, developing policies that…

If this isn’t the very definition of “government waste” then I don’t know what is. Gov. Scott Walker spent an average of less than one hour per day doing state business during his short-lived presidential campaign, according to records released…

What a waste of taxpayer money… Starting November 9th anyone using Transform Milwaukee, the Transitional Jobs Program, W-2 services, and the court ordered Child First Program– will have to test clean for drugs. If they are drug users, they’ll be…

As reported by the CapTimes, all four Democrats on the Legislature’s Joint Committee on Finance joined six Assembly Republicans in voting to pull out the state’s credit card and charge $350 million for road projects throughout Wisconsin. The four Democrats…

Apparently this isn’t a joke… “Walker creates new commission to work on making government more efficient” Gov. Scott Walker is telling a new commission on efficiency that taxpayers expect government to be accountable and effective. He said the government needs…

I know this is a week old, but I think it’s still worth discussing. So it seems “Borrow & Spend” Scott Walker wants to borrow hundreds of millions of dollars to fund highway projects in Wisconsin. In borrowing against the…